Recipe: Sussex Apple & Blackberry Crumble

Recently I’ve had the craving to go fruit picking. Don’t ask me why, it just really reminds me of my childhood, it’s fun and best of all – it’s free!

On Josh’s birthday weekend we went up to Burgess Hill and took his family dog for a walk with his parents and went on the hunt for some blackberries. It was the end of the season so we didn’t expect to get many but we came away with a fairly large tupperware full! Josh’s mum also gave us some apples from her tree and so the next evening we decided to make this!

Apple & Blackberry Crumble

Ingredients | Serves 4 | Takes 1 hour

For the filling:

2 1/2 large apples

150g blackberries

a few drops of vanilla extract

75g caster sugar

For the crumble:

85g plain flour

80g unsalted butter

70g caster sugar

20g oats

pint of salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Method

Preheat oven to 180c.

Core and peel the apples and then chop them up into small pieces.

Add the chopped apple, blackberries and 75g of caster sugar to a saucepan on a low heat.

Mix well and allow to cook for 5 minutes until the juices have run out and the sugar has dissolved.

Add the vanilla extract and cook for a further 5 minutes.

Meanwhile make crumble by mixing the plain flour, sugar and butter in a bowl and rub together the mixture with fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.

Add the oats, salt and cinnamon and mix well.

Add the fruit mixture to an ovenproof dish and cover with the crumble mixture.